so this is a part of my project that I'm struggling with. I need to be able to search if a file exists, and if it does then I could append to it without erasing the content of the original file. and if the file does not exist to make a new one. However I'm running into a problem in which when I enter a directory and a file name of a file that doesn't exist, it says it exists, and creates the file and adds data to it regardless of the fact not existing before running the program. What am I doing wrong here. I'm somewhat new to file writing

package writeToFile;

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class writeTo {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{

		String fileDirectory;
		String fileName;

		System.out.println("Please enter the directory to create a new text file (Don't include file name or extension at the end i.e (C:\\Users\\JohnDoe\\Desktop)");
		Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
		fileDirectory = keyboard.nextLine();
		System.out.println("Please choose a file name for your text file (Don't Include .txt or any extensions at the end)");
		fileName = keyboard.nextLine();

		File newFile = new File(fileDirectory + "\\" + fileName +".txt");
		FileWriter fileWrite = new FileWriter(newFile, true);
		BufferedWriter bufferedWrite = new BufferedWriter(fileWrite);
		PrintWriter write = new PrintWriter(bufferedWrite);

		if(newFile.exists() == false){
			newFile.createNewFile();
			write.print("hello new worlkd");
			System.out.println("File Created and written to sucessfully, Please check " + fileDirectory +" For the File " + fileName);

		}

		else{
			System.out.println("The File " + fileName +" Already Exists, populating existing file");
			write.print("hello old worlkd");
		}


		write.close();
		keyboard.close();

	}
}

So i have made a file and it reads it properly with what I have provided. But when I add in the PrintWriter code it deletes all text in the data.txt file. Here is what I have written down.

public class files
{
   public static void main () throws Exception
   {
      Scanner inputFile;
      File fileName;
      PrintWriter outputFile;
      fileName = new File ("data.txt");
      outputFile = new PrintWriter (fileName);
      inputFile = new Scanner (fileName);
                 
    
      while (inputFile .hasNext())
         {
           //code
         }
     }
}

I have yet to add in a try/catch but I don't think that is why it wont work. I also tried slightly rearranging the order but that didn't work.

edit: Solved using

        Scanner inputFile;
        File fileName;
        PrintWriter outputFile;
        fileName = new File ("data.txt");
        inputFile = new Scanner (fileName);
        
        FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(fileName,true); //true here signifies append mode
        outputFile = new PrintWriter (fileWriter);